A method for providing on-screen notification of alarmed elements of a managed network system, wherein an alarm icon continuously displayed on a video display screen indicates when at least one network element not visible on the video display screen is alarmed. The video screen includes a view pane which displays the map containing icon representations of elements of the network system, the map being moveable within the view pane to permit all regions of the map to be selectively viewed, wherein at least one of the network element icons is not visible in the view pane at any given time.
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1. A method for providing on-screen notification of alarmed elements of a managed network system, comprising the steps of: providing a video display screen for displaying a map of a plurality of icon representations of elements of a network system, the map being moveable within the display screen to permit all regions of the map to be selectively viewed; and continuously displaying an image on the video display screen which indicates when at least one network element icon not visible on the video display screen is being alarmed, wherein the image is an alarm directional icon which indicates the direction of the at least one alarmed network element icon on the map.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the image becomes illuminated to indicate when at least one network element icon not visible on the video display screen is being alarmed.
3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of filtering at least one network element icon so that it is not visible on the video display screen.
4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of displaying an image on the video display screen which indicates when the filtered network element icon is being alarmed.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the image includes a section corresponding to a center position and sections corresponding to compass headings comprising north, north east, east, south east, south, south west, west, and north west.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the image sections corresponding to the north, north east, east, south east, south, south west, west, and north west compass headings are arrow-shaped.
7. A method for providing on-screen notification of alarmed elements of a managed network system, comprising the steps of: providing a video display screen having a view pane for displaying a map containing icon representations of network elements of a network system, the map being moveable within the view pane to permit all regions of the map to be selectively viewed, wherein at least one of the network element icons is not visible in the view pane at any given time; displaying an image on the display screen which becomes illuminated to indicate when the at least one network element not visible in the view pane of the video display is being alarmed, wherein the image includes a section which corresponds to the region of the map visible in the view pane, the section corresponding to the region of the map visible in the view pane is centrallylocated in the image, and the image includes a plurality of sections disposed around the centrally-located section of the image, wherein the plurality of sections correspond to a plurality of compass directions measured relative to the region of the map visible in the view pane.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the image is an alarm directional icon which indicates the direction in which to move the map to find the at least one alarmed network element icon.
9. The method according to claim 7, wherein at least two network element icons are visible in the view pane, and further comprising the step of filtering at least one of the at least two network element icons so that it is not visible in the view pane of the video display screen.
10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of displaying an image on the display screen which indicates that the filtered network element is being alarmed.
11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the compass directions include north, north east, east, south east, south, south west, west, and north west.
12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the compass direction sections of the image are arrow-shaped.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein each arrow-shaped compass direction section points away from the centrally-located section in a direction corresponding a different compass heading.
14. The method according to claim 7, wherein the image includes a section corresponding to a center area and sections corresponding to compass directions comprising north, north east, east, south east, south, south west, west, and north west.
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the image sections corresponding to the north, north east, east, south east, south, south west, west, and north west compass directions are arrow-shaped.
16. The method according to claim 15, wherein each arrow-shaped compass direction section points away from the center position in a direction corresponding to its compass heading.
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October 9, 2001
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